Category: Editor Posts

On 11 May 2018, Conservation Watch wrote a post based on a report by the Oakland Institute, “Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever”. The report documents in detail the human rights abuses faced by the Maasai in the Ngorongoro and Loliondo regions of Tanzania.

On 11 May 2018, Xinhua reported that Najib Balala, Kenya’s Minister for Tourism and Wildlife, had announced that Kenya plans to fast-track laws to make wildlife crimes punishable by the death penalty. Balala made the announcement during the launch of the northern white rhino commemorative stamps at Ol Pejeta Conservancy…

Mordecai Ogada, co-author of The Big Conservation Lie, has a challenge. “I challenge you to find any advertising brochure advertising safaris to Kenya that shows you black people, as clients. I challenge you.”

On Monday, 9 April 2018, five rangers and a driver were killed in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A sixth ranger was wounded. In a statement, Virunga National Park said it is, “deeply saddened to confirm reports of an attack on our staff today”.